While working with my patient this afternoon, my assistant Salomi decided to ask me a million questions. Here is a small excerpt from our conversation (verbatim):
Salomi: are there cactuses in texas?
me: yes. you call many of them cacti.
Salomi: you promise there are cacti there?
me: yes, they are all over texas. i dont have any in my front yard or anything, but they are on the sides of highways and in fields.
Salomi: are they big?
me: yes, they can be.
Salomi: do they talk?
....pause for my laughter and then sudden realization that she is serious.
me: no, salomi, they do not talk.
Salomi: oh, cause the ones on tv talk.
me: are they cartoons?
Salomi: Yes.
me: oh, we don't have cartoon cacti, only real ones.
Salomi: Texas is so cool.
(The patient was also disappointed that Texas does not have cartoon cacti .)
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You know what's sad? I just realized when I read this that I did not have a conversation with an actual human today. I wish I had some cartoon cacti to talk to.
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